Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Vigil’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1981 · most notably Bradbury & Stamm Construction Co. v. Bureau of Revenue (1962), Burch v. Foy (1957)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 1 (CFTC Reauthorization Act of 1995)
Relies on Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Hill v. Wallace · Dorchy v. State of Kansas · Williams v. Standard Oil Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burch v. Foy
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.